Carlton key forward Charlie Curnow is confident he has avoided a season-ending knee injury in Saturday's AFL win over Port Adelaide.
But Port Adelaide will be without defender Jack Watts for a long spell after he needed surgery.
Watts suffered a broken leg and dislocated ankle when his right leg was trapped in a tackle in the third quarter of Port's win against Carlton on Saturday night.
The 28-year-old had surgery on Sunday.
"It's too early to be putting a specific timeline on his recovery at this stage," Port's head of medical services Tim O'Leary said in a statement.
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Curnow hurt his right knee in the Adelaide Oval game and there were concerns that he might have ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament, meaning a knee reconstruction.
But Curnow was upbeat on Sunday morning after scans.
"That's all cleared, I'm pretty sure," Curnow told Channel Nine.
"It feels pretty good, I just pulled up a bit sore last night."
